It did seem a bit odd that a group of traumatized high school students managed to pull off a highly organized, multi-million dollar rally involving hundreds of thousands of people across the country, all in a matter of just a few weeks. Saturday’s March for Our Lives event, which was supposedly organized “for kids and by kids” is a registered 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy organization, which means they are not required to disclose their donors — and there’s a reason why they don’t want people to know who’s pulling the strings.
However, here is a list of at least ten far-left donors known to be behind the March for Our Lives movement, including: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Mark Kelly & the Gifford Foundation, Michael Bloomberg & Everytown for Gun Safety, MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood, George Soros & Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, Women’s March, Louis Farrakhan, Friends Committee of National Legislation, American Federation of Teachers,Jeri Rhodes & Greenpeace, Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Basically, a whos who of Progressive/anti-gun activists.
The Washington Post reported, “Contrary to what’s been reported in many media accounts, the D.C. March for Our Lives crowd was not primarily made up of teenagers. Only about 10 percent of the participants were under 18. The average age of the adults in the crowd was just under 49 years old, which is older than participants at the other marches but similar to the age of the average participant at the Million Moms March in 2000, which was also about gun control.
Even more interesting, the new protesters were less motivated by the issue of gun control. In fact, only 12 percent of the people who were new to protesting reported that they were motivated to join the march because of the gun-control issue, compared with 60 percent of the participants with experience protesting.
Instead, new protesters reported being motivated by the issues of peace (56 percent) and Trump (42 percent), who has been a galvanizing force for many protests. The March for Our Lives had the allure of a free concert — in fact, the event’s website maintained a list of performers but never listed the speakers. But it is one thing to turn out to watch Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ariana Grande perform…”
Well now, Wayne, who did you think would be funding this movement- Roy Moore? Or did you assume that a bunch of high-school kids could just start off one afternoon touring the country and appearing on TV completely on their own volition? Why does the fact that they got help from Progressives get your panties all in a bunch?
You and your pal Plante can always be counted on to spew right wing drivel on almost any subject. It’s really getting to be a bore.
Things to keep away from liberals:
1. Liquor
2. Firearms
3. Women
4. Positions of power
5. Voters
6. Podiums with microphones
7. Smartphones
8. Voting booths
9. email
10. Hammers
11. Children, and our children’s children (edit)
12. Slush funds
13. Foundations
14. Uranium (Yellow cake)
15. Russians (Yes, this includes Black Russians)
16. Tarmacs
17. Cigars
18. Tax revenue
19. Education
20. Local city council
21. Interns
22. Schools and colleges
23. Bleach-bit, or cloth
24. Oval Office
25. Fake news camera’s….
26. Illegal Aliens (edit)
27. The United States Constitution
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when liberal men are afraid of the light.
Exactly.
John Read, dude, what it is?
And let me tell you how great it is to see you in here, sniping away as only you can do with such aplomb (self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation)!
That was a very stirring and moving speech you just made there, let me tell you!
It had people up this way marching back and forth and waving signs that say “HOORAY for John Read’s side,” which is but a small measure of the esteem you are held in, not only in this country, but across the world, as well, given that the Cape Charles Mirror is an intellectual publication read around the world for its intellectual content such as you have just posted above.
Well done, John Read.
Oh, before I go, John Read, I am a liberal.
If I can always be counted on, as you say, to spew drivel on almost any subject, it is liberal drivel that I would have to be spewing, because that is the only kind of real meaty drivel there is to spew today.
But thanks for asking, all the same, it was appreciated.
Recently, on March 26, 2018, the National Review had an interesting article entitled “David Hogg: Oracle, or Useful Idiot?” by a contributor named Joe Bissonnette, who teaches at Assumption College School in Brantford, Ontario, wherein was stated as follows concerning young David Hogg, who is the leader of the pack here, the one who pretty much, in the minds of the adoring press anyway, pulled this march off pretty much single-handedly, to wit:
Though a senior, he brings to life the roots of the word ‘sophomore.’
Like “philosophy,” “sophomore” is one of those richly nuanced Greek words that should be handled with care.
Of course, it is the name given to second-year students in a four-year program.
It is a humorous and not entirely flattering term.
It is a compound word, combining “Sophos,” meaning wise, and “Moros,” meaning stupid, because second-year students know just enough to make themselves think they know it all, thereby making themselves dumb.
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He is saying something there that, I wonder, if it is capable of being heard in America today.
Moving along, we have:
It is amazing how predictable and consistent this phenomenon is.
And it’s a very good reason why we should gently but firmly tell David Hogg and his friends marching on Washington to sit down, stop speaking, and listen.
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WOW!
Good thing he is in Canada, because if he was sown here, the David Hogg Arm y would be tearing him apart on TWITTER, their chosen medium of communications.
Getting back to the article:
Unlike the Kardashians, social media, gender studies, or anything sold by Starbucks, the Second Amendment is not some fraudulent circus scam designed to deceive, corrupt, and impoverish.
Peace, order, and good government have had an amazingly long run in America, but they are fragile things, and the United States Constitution did not secure them by chance.
As student activists will quickly note as they begin to observe their rising student leaders, power corrupts.
It is a rare government that is not trying to expand its scope at the expense of the freedoms of the governed.
The Second Amendment is unique in its clear recognition of the need for forceful vigilance in the face of this fundamental truth.
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Now, consider that there is a Canadian speaking about our citizen rights in this country, and quite eloquently so.
We are a free people because we have guns.
Getting back to the article:
But this is a truth revealed by light, not heat; that is, this is a truth seen through clear thinking rather than high emotion, and so it is all but invisible to the students and celebrities who marched on Washington in the wake of another tragic school shooting.
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How on point he is with those words, and how true that is, even in here.
And then we come to young David Hogg:
David Hogg is a 17-year-old student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the scene of the most recent tragic school shooting.
Hogg is basking in his 15 minutes of fame at an embarrassingly early age, and so we might avert our eyes from his much-viewed display of ingratitude, sanctimony, and profanity, except that we can’t, because manipulative adults in the media are deploying him as a useful idiot.
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Manipulative adults in the media are deploying young David Hogg as a useful idiot.
Yes, indeed!
They sure are, and he sure is, but it took a Canadian to tell us that, because there seem to be no Americans in the main stream media with the courage to.
And back to the article:
Older useful idiots are also in attendance: George Clooney, Dennis Rodman, and of course Kim Kardashian.
But people who cherry-pick the tragic, the emotional, and the strange to form a national narrative have cast their klieg light on David Hogg, and so in predictably sophomoric fashion he believes himself to be an oracle.
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There he nails an important point in this narrative – that being that young Hogg now does see himself as an oracle here – hiding in that closet while the shooting was going on, thinking he was going to die, has totally transformed him and has made him righteous.
A fervent abolitionist like John Brown who started an earlier civil war in this country when he raided the Union arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
Getting back to the article:
To witness or experience tragedy is a terrible thing, and it is no easy thing for anyone to make sense of, and so from Job on through the stoics to the victims and heroes of the day before yesterday, the mystery of ineffable tragedy has been most often met by solemn silence.
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Combat veterans experience that when they come back to here after serving overseas in combat somewhere, but as the author says:
PTSD does not instill wisdom.
But that doesn’t really matter to the cynical media, who cut back and forth between Stormy Daniels and the earnest pontifications of adolescents.
A little perspective is in order.
Time reports that since 2013, six adults and 35 children have been killed in school shootings in the U.S.
While this is a tragedy, there are an average of 51 deaths by lightning strikes each year in the U.S.
The likelihood that you will be killed by a lightning strike is six times greater than the likelihood that you will be killed in a school shooting.
The shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida was a tragedy, but it is not part of an epidemic, and it is mendacious to present it as such.
There are, however, a number of reasons why it is being given this spin:
1) Any attack on children is particularly horrific, and if it bleeds it leads;
2) any grave crime committed by a minor is deeply disturbing;
3) any story involving guns makes blue-state America see red;
4) the mainstream media is so desperate for under-30 viewers that they will give triple coverage to any story from them and for them; and
5) everybody knows that schools are sociopathic, outdated, Industrial Revolution–era warehouses, but the media Left hasn’t figured out how to say this out of fear of the powerful teachers’ unions, so this provides a back door into a great untold story.
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There in my estimation is where he really cuts to the chase of the media exploitation going on here, which continues as follows:
The anti–Second Amendment hysteria of the Left is portraying an exceptional tragedy as an epidemic.
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And they are doing a real fine job at it, right, John Read?
Is that money well spent, or what?
And John Read, have you ever stopped to consider that if the Cape Charles Mirror were really right-wing, instead of egalitarian, as it is, voices like yours would never be heard in here, nor would our dear friend and fellow commentator Chas Cornweller ever make it through the door?
No, you probably haven’t.
Sorry I asked.